A Hole In My Heart

With scenes that must surely rank among the most revolting ever committed to film, director Luckas Moodysson's fourth feature redefines the career of a young director whose past work (TOGETHERNESS, LILYA 4-EVER) thrust him to the forefront of a new, exciting Swedish cinema. Told in a disorienting, non-linear mode, and punctuated with rapid-fire montages of mutilated sex toys, pulsating organs and what appears to be real operating-room footage of labial reconstruction surgery, Moodysson's film boils down to a fairly straightforward scenario. In a cramped, squalid apartment somewhere in Sweden, Rickard (Thorsten Flinck) and his friend, Geko (Goran Marjanovic), are shoo...